Unfortunately it's not just one script. I've found many variations in login
pages, so I've had to customize the scripts for each different target. Some
logins require a form to be posted back, others are handled via
WWW-Authenticate pop-up boxes and sometimes redirects have to be followed.
That's not hard if the site uses Location headers, because curl can handle
those, but I've also found meta-refresh tags and several types of javascript
"go-elsewhere" redirects that have to be individually scripted.
I posted something a year or so ago that might get you started. If I can
find it, I'll post it again.
Ralph Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Thomas Laurids Pedersen <user-934e986710b3@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Would you share the bourne script. I need something quickly for only 1
site at the moment, so anything will do.
Regards, Thomas
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas Laurids Pedersen <*user-934e986710b3@xymon.invalid*<user-934e986710b3@xymon.invalid>>
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Can this new extension do the post like the builtin http test can do
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Regards, Thomas
I don't think so, as it currently stands. This line:
$ret=qx(curl -m $tout -s -k -S $pstr "$url" 2>&1);
in showUrl is the bit that actually fetches the web page. To do a POST
using curl, you would need to change that to:
$ret=qx(curl -m $tout -s -k -S -d $postArgs $pstr "$url" 2>&1);
with matching additions elsewhere to fill the $postArgs variable with
whatever you want to post. If you're wanting to implement something that
performs a login, you'd probably want to track cookies as well.
I'm not much of a perl programmer, so I'm not confident about making such
changes. On the other hand, I've done quite a lot of this in Bourne shell...
Ralph Mitchell